The Second Day

The Second Day

On the second day of the apparitions, most of the visionaries were out in the fields collecting tobacco leaves. They finished their work a little earlier than usual, whereupon Ivanka, Mirjana, Vicka, and Ivan Dragidevic decided to return to the hill. Vicka describes the events of this day in an interview with Finabar O’Leary: “On this particular day Milka was not able to come, as she was doing some chores for her mother.

The Sixth Day

The Sixth Day

On the sixth day, Monday, the children were again summoned to Citluk by the authorities, and then sent to Mostar, to the neuro-psychiatric department of the Dr. Safet Mujic Hospital. It was expected that the six children would be declared mentally ill, or hallucinatory, etc.

The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

The Vision in Cerno

On the seventh day, the children had been taken by social workers away from the site of the apparitions. Because of this, they were in Cerno at the time of the apparition, while thousands of people were waiting for them on the hillside in Bijakovici.

The First Day

The First Day

In an interview with Fr. Svetozar in February 1983, Ivanka, the first young person to see Our Lady, spoke about the extraordinary events that took place on June 24, 1981, the feast day of John the Baptist: “We were together in my house, Mirjana and myself, and we went for a walk. When we were returning home, for some reason I looked toward the hill and saw a bright figure. I said, ‘Mirjana, look, the Madonna!’ Mirjana waved her hand and said, ‘Come on, you think Our Lady would appear to us!’ And we continued on our way home. We came to Milka's house, (younger sister of visionary Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti), and she said, ‘Let us go to bring the sheep home.’ So we went there (near where the Community of Sr. Elvira is now located), talking along the way.